After finishing her flute studies at the university of music in vienna with exellent diplom in 1991, Gertraud Wimmer obtained a three-year scholarship from the Swiss confederation that has authorized her to study the Barockflute (Traverso)with Oscar Peter at the famous " Schola Cantorum Basiliensis " in Bale, Swiss.

1994 she continued her Early Music postgraduate studies in the class of Barthold Kujiken at the " Köningljik Conservatorium" in The Haag , Netherlands.

1996 she was called to teach performance practice and traverso at the University of Music in Vienna. Frequently she gives lectures at different international master classes.

Gertraud Wimmer is member of the " Bachconsort Wien ", "Les Trois " and the" Academia del Arcadia " and has performed with different baroque ensembles like "concentus musicus " (Nicolaus Hanrnoncourt) and " Les Nations " (Jordy Savall). As a chamber music partner she played together with famous musicians like Emma Kirkby and Erich Höbarth.

She is regularly asked as a soloist for different festivals like “Bach Tagen Berlin”and in the " Musikverein "in Vienna.

Her passion is to express diverse spheres of human soul by the subtle nuances of the baroque traverso.